[fpc-devel] Random branchless coding video!

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Hi everyone,

So I stumbled across this Australian programmer who talks about 
branchless programming and assembly-level optimisations, and it's 
interesting because he points out the pitfalls of trying to out-optimise 
the compiler.  Just a random thing I thought the compiler developers 
might be interested in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVJ-mWWL7cE

Gareth aka. Kit

P.S. The "smaller" function he illustrates, which is essentially "min", 
I think FPC already optimises it with a CMOV instruction!


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